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- Torrents of blood have been spilt in the old world, by vain attempts of the secular arm, to extinguish Religious discord, by proscribing all difference…
- Who does not see that . . . the same authority which can force a citizen to contribute three pence only of his property for…
- Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the…
- Of all the enemies of public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
- The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
- All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not…
- What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were…
- To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and…
- The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are…
- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, selfappointed, or…
- The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim to…
- Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise.... During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been…
- The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy…
- The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such…
- We've staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
- All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
- The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or…
- The principles and modes of governments are too important to be disregarded by an inquisitive mind and I think are well worthy a critical examination…
- During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
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- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle